diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e65bda3..b8984b2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased/Snapshot]
 
+## [0.6.0] - 2024-12-02
+
 ### Added
 - Enable initialization of external data simulation [#167](https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaAPI/issues/167)
 - `ExtResultContainer` returns result map [#217](https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaAPI/issues/217)
@@ -45,7 +47,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Renamed messages to ease understanding [#62](https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaAPI/issues/62)
 - Separating departures and arrivals in message protocol, properly handling exceptions [#77](https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaAPI/issues/77)
 
-[Unreleased/Snapshot]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaapi/compare/0.5.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased/Snapshot]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/simonaapi/compare/0.6.0...HEAD
+[0.6.0]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/powersystemdatamodel/compare/0.5.0...0.6.0
 [0.5.0]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/powersystemdatamodel/compare/0.4.0...0.5.0
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/powersystemdatamodel/compare/0.3.0...0.4.0
 [0.3.0]: https://github.com/ie3-institute/powersystemdatamodel/compare/0.2.0...0.3.0
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 73d7b4bb..6f315615 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ dependencies{
 
   // TESTING
   testImplementation 'org.spockframework:spock-core:2.3-groovy-4.0'
-
-  implementation group: 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core', name: 'jackson-databind', version: '2.18.2'
 }
 
 task printVersion {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 7f93135c..a4b76b95 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 09523c0e..e2847c82 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.9-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index 1aa94a42..f5feea6d 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
 
 ##############################################################################
 #
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/platforms/jvm/plugins-application/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -84,7 +86,8 @@ done
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
 # Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
+APP_HOME=$( cd -P "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && printf '%s
+' "$PWD" ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index 93e3f59f..9d21a218 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 @rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 @rem limitations under the License.
 @rem
+@rem SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+@rem
 
 @if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
 @rem ##########################################################################
@@ -43,11 +45,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
 %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
 if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail
 
@@ -57,11 +59,11 @@ set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
 
 if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
 
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
+echo. 1>&2
+echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% 1>&2
+echo. 1>&2
+echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the 1>&2
+echo location of your Java installation. 1>&2
 
 goto fail